Posted on 01/18/2014 11:23:29 AM PST by Salvation
**If a priest is accused, he’s guilty.**
That is exactly what happened in one of the three cases I know of.
Three attorneys attended the trial in Portland — and there were dates to verify when this priest worked for a state institution.
On one — he wasn’t even there yet.
On another — he had already gotten another assignment
On the third accuser — it was another priest who took the youth to view a site when his sister had supposedly drowned.
One of the jurors talked with the attorneys afterward, and the juror’s words from what was spoken in the deliberation room: “He’s a Catholic priest; now let’s prove that he’s guilty.”
Not the Church.
Pedophile priests.
“I mean, the TV probably told you there was a conspiracy, and it never lies, right? “
And the lack of proof of a conspiracy proves how good the cover-up is. . .
I can give you a long list of seminary links that prove that the emissaries sent by Pope Benedict XVI did indeed happen and the seminaries were cleaned out.
Now future seminariarians have to undergo a two day psychological exam, multiple interview (4 or 5), having parents, priest mentors interviewed, etc., etc. even before he is accepted into the seminary!
So not to worry, OK. Tell you acquaintance that he can go back to that seminary now and find a completely different culture!
Ever hear of that obscure group called the American public schools? No bigger cover up of child abuse has ever existed.
No one has ever gotten you to publish the numbers of homosexual rapes by various denominations, why won’t you do that?
So far, it appears that the Catholic denomination suffers from a problem of homosexuality.
Fr. Groeschel’s statement was not even about fraud, but about the realities of a priest counseling a gay youth and ending up seduced himself.
It is another case of the sex abuse scandal being a no-free-speech zone in the American media.
This lawyer is a courageous man voicing this.
Over and over again priests who were accused were transferred to other parishes without letting people in the new parish know, and the accusations were hushed up by Bishops. That was standard operating procedure. They had to know it was systemic, and they let it continue until public pressure and the cost of lawsuits became too great. Spin all you want, but minimizing what happened is pathetic.
What is pathetic is your constant trolling of any article and post that has ‘Roman Catholic’ in it so you can stop by to bash the Church.
Why don’t you stop being a Catholic bashing bigot? Have you nothing better to do?
Many of our enemies rejoice at evil.
Been that way for years, but shyster lawyers know where the money is.
Wow!
Father Benedict Groschel is one of the greatest Catholic priests that ever lived.
Percentage wise there is more sexual abuse in protestant faiths than Catholicism. Don’t make me give you the stats. And no other Pope in history did more to clean up the Catholic Church and weed out, AND GET RID OF, sexual abusers than Pope Benedict.
Thanks for your links.
Why? Willie Sutton, a man ahead of his time, knew it: because that’s where the money is!
It’s amazing that non-Catholics and other protestants can post innumerable threads about the Catholic Church. But when one thread is posted about the truth, all the nonsensical stuff appears.
If innocent priests are being accused, the truth must out. Anyone remember all the claims against child care providers? Therapists were implanting false memories in the children. None of the claims were true in the ones I am familiar with.
You like seeing innocent people convicted by liars?
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